Declarations is an ongoing artistic research into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard.

Current Tracks

scrapping CSS as a material to analyze: collecting style as content, language analysis on stylesheets, anti-standard validator systems.

scratching CSS as a tactical tool: browser-extension for user-hacker, tactical design and fictions from the bottom.

telling CSS as a performative medium: telling a website declarations by declarations, as a story.

translating CSS as symbols: on metaphors and cultural embedding used in the standards and on the web.

reflecting CSS as paradigms: exploring other field that use declarativeness to transform the self, like fashion, or role-playing.

crafting CSS as a fragile craft: pushing our hands into its word-like materiality to explore its grain.

fabulation.structure

scratching crafting

with Doriane

This fabulations tries to reverse what is display and not displayed on a webpage.


The MelonLand Everyone Site

telling translating

with Daniel Murray

A collaborative website that can be edited, constructed and destroyed by over 1500 authors, in a never-ending online worksession, exploring the ephemeral meme-like cultures of multi-user media.


vitrine at constant

crafting translating reflecting

constant vitrine

with Camilo Garcia Daniel Murray Doriane Florence Walker Karl Moubarak Lara Dautun Martin Lemaire Sohyeon Lee vo ezn

During a one-week worksession with artists, writers, amateurs, designers and hackers, we explored how the malleability of the CSS web language is used to dialogue with technology. The results of the first worksession of this research are presented as an installation in Constant’s window.


a thermal printed scrollbar (4m x 68mm)

translating

constant worksession

with Martin Lemaire

The thermal printer lies at the intersection, it prints on paper, but there is no page, it preverses the scrolling structure of a website.


ChattyLARP

telling reflecting

constant worksession

with Florence Walker Karl Moubarak

What if a group chat could be a LARP session where CSS can become a theater of improvised performances.


fabulation.focus

scratching telling

constant worksession

with Florence Walker Karl Moubarak Doriane

The focus fabulation act as both a perfomative process and a poem.


fabulation.shovel

scratching

constant worksession

with Martin Lemaire Doriane Daniel Murray

a firefox browser extension that show the root CSS element on every page, and allow us to modify those exposed variables.


fabulation.weather

scratching translating

constant worksession

with Camilo Garcia Daniel Murray Doriane Timmermans Florence Walker Karl Moubarak Lara Dautun Martin Lemaire Sohyeon Lee vo ezn

This experiment uses a weather station API (Application Programing Interface) and connect it to your daily browsing experience. If there is wind outside the wind also blows on the element of any webpage.


where is the sky of a website

telling translating

constant worksession

with Sohyeon Lee Lara Dautun Camilo Garcia

On February 15, 2024, Melooon asked on the melonland forum the following question: Where is te sky of a website?


The Leaky Homepage Ring

scratching translating

with Daniel Murray

A mini club, who's membership script slowly fills websites with water, rendering them unusable until visitors collaborate to mop the water up.


fabulation.scratch

scratching

with Doriane

a firefox browser extension that allow to edit all website at once


wiki scratching

scratching crafting

workshop at le75

with Doriane le75 students

A workshop at le 75 about giving new themes to specific articles of wikipedia in collaborative way using etherpad, through a firefox web-extension, as tactical design.


guestbook

scratching crafting

with all

Declarations has a guestbook, where every artists or collaborators can sign. In the guestbook you don't sign by picking up what you write but by shaping the writing itlself through CSS.


against

translating scrapping

with Doriane

A purposefully cinycal tool about web named color and accessibility standards.


Wonderful Websites Pedagogy

telling

with Doriane

A currated list of alternatives ressources on learning the web in sensible ways.


Etherstyling Wikipedia

scratching crafting

workshop in Mainz

with Doriane Mainz students

A workshop at Mainz about giving new themes to specific wikipedia articles in collaborative way using etherpad.


declarative companion

translating crafting

workshop at le75

with Doriane le75 students

A workshop at le 75 about describing everyday objects and crafting webpage out of those descriptions.


pseudo forces

crafting

with Doriane

A CSS-based lettering system, where each glyph is entierly drawed out of one div and its two :after and :before pseudo elements.